Thomas Glavinic

Thomas Glavinic [ glavinitʃ ] ( born April 2, 1972 in Graz) is an Austrian writer.

Life

Glavinic Thomas was born in 1972 in Graz. He worked as a copywriter and taxi drivers and has been writing since 1991 novels, essays, short stories, radio plays and reports. In 1998, he published his first novel Carl Haffner's Love to draw. The novel describes the battle for the World Chess Championship between Emanuel Lasker and the fictional Carl Haffner. For the protagonists Haffner, the author chose the Viennese chess champion Karl Schlechter as a model. The book has won several awards and translated into other languages ​​, the leap onto the bestseller lists, however, remained largely out. The novel has an autobiographical reference: Thomas Glavinic played at the age of five years, his first chess game and reached 1987 in his age group rank 2 of the Austrian chess rankings.

In 2000, the Roman Mr. Susi followed, a written language in hearty reckoning with the football marketing business. This was examined primarily negative by critics. 2001 then the detective novel The Kameramörder ( the Friedrich Glauser Prize on the Criminale ), which was celebrated by the arts pages enthusiastic for his criticism of the media. In 2004 he succeeded to the satirical novel of how one should live, which is consistently written in the "Man- perspective", both readers (No. 1 on the bestseller list of Austria) and critics ( # 1 on the critic -best list of the ORF) to convince. The novel served in 2010 as a template for the eponymous film. In August 2006, his novel The work of the night, which was also to find the 1st place of the critic -best list of the ORF in August 2006, but did not make it to the longlist of the Association of the German Book Trade in 2006 for the German Book Prize ( " Thomas Glavinic ," the protagonist of the novel the am I, expresses the hope that this may just happen ).

Glavinic ' published in summer 2007 novel I am, however, was nominated for the German Book Prize and made it here even on the shortlist, which is a selection of six of the original twenty selected for the longlist authors. The novel Life of Wishes 2009 was on the longlist for the German Book Prize.

Thomas Glavinic is the father of a son and lives in Vienna. Since his childhood, he is a supporter of the SK Sturm Graz.

Works

Glavinic works have been translated, among others, in the English, French, Hungarian and Dutch.

  • Carl Haffner's Love to draw. Novel. Nation and the world, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-353-01111-0.
  • Mr. Susi. Novel. Nation and the world, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-353-01152-8.
  • The camera killer. Novel. Nation and the world, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-353-01191-9.
  • How to live. Novel. dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-24392-9.
  • The work of the night. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-446-20762-7.
  • I am. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-446-20912-1.
  • The life of desires. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23390-4.
  • Lisa. Novel. Hanser, 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23636-3.
  • Move in the name of the Lord. Novel. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23739-1.
  • The greater miracle. Novel. Hanser, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24332-3.
  • My typewriter and me. Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24487-0.

Secondary literature

  • Assmann, David Christopher: I 'm not. Thomas Glavinic literary world scene, in: Wegmann, Thomas & Wolf, Norbert Christian ( ed.), "high" and "low". To the interference of high and popular culture in contemporary literature ( = Studies and texts on the social history of literature 130), de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2011, p 121-140.
  • Famula, Marta: Parables of epistemological failure. Thomas Glavinic novel The work of the night in the tradition of labyrinthine storytelling with Franz Kafka and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, in: Bartl, Andrea (Eds.), transit dreams. Contributions to contemporary German literature. Interviews with Raoul Schrott, inter alia, with the cooperation of Hanna Victoria Becker ( = German literature and contemporary literature 5) Wißner, Augsburg 2009, pp. 103-122.
  • Holzner, Birgit: Thomas Glavinic end times novel The work of the night, in: Zemanek, Evi and Krones, Susanne (ed.), Literature of the millennium. Topics, writing method and book market by 2000, Bielefeld: Transcript 2008, pp. 215-224.
  • Anja K. Johannsen, : In a fit of literary disgust. The novels Thomas Glavinic in the fabric of the literary establishment, in: Brodowsky, Paul u Klupp, Thomas ( ed.), How to talk about the present? Reflections on the methods of contemporary literature science, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al 2010, pp. 105-118.
  • Lowenstein, Sascha: " And like all he had left no trace " - On the mystery of self and the world in Thomas Glavinic "The work of the Night", in: Maier, Thomas & Lowenstein, Sascha (eds.): Beautiful Dying. Lectures on literature at Heinrich von Veldeke circle. Scientific Verlag, Berlin, 2013, pp. 228-262.
  • Eberhard Sauermann: Thomas Glavinic ' " Kameramörder " - but not a scandal?: Stefan Neuhaus, Johann Holzner (eds.), Literature as a scandal. Cases - Features - consequences. With three illustrations, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, pp. 666-677.

Awards

Carl Schlechter Night Work (Glavinic novel) Phantastik-Preis der Stadt Wetzlar Integrated Authority File
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